A ROAD SO DARKIn this adventure, the characters research a previously unknown night road between Leagueheim and Grail, following a trail of evidence to an artifact invaluable to their employer...

KRAKEN'S LOOMIn this adventure, the characters search for a Hawkwood Count, a prominent diplomat whose ship was lost in the outer reaches of the Leminkainen system. The trail leads to Hargard, however, where they learn that there are many fates worse than death...

RUINOUS FOLLYIn this adventure, the characters explore the secrets of an ancient think machine, following a treasure map into the turbulent atmosphere of the gas giant Gargantua. However, they are not the only ones, and the treasure they find has plans of its own...

DEAD ENDIn this adventure the characters travel to Kish to attend a religious ceremony, but are soon drawn into an obscure plot of murder and intrigue. As the characters follow the track of an unknown assailant who tried to assassinate Baron Sun Cho Li Halan’s young wife, they are about to discover a disturbing secret far greater than just the identity of a mere criminal...

Shards Collection Volume One is a collection of four stand-alone dramas for Fading Suns Second Edition, designed for a group of three to five player characters of any factions.

NOTE: This book combines and replaces the four individual Shards, previously available only in PDF format (and now retired from sale). For owners of the individual Shards, this edition incorporates a revised layout and other edits. While there are some changes, the Shards in this book are not markedly different from their initial release.

A poor product. You get 98 actual pages, about a third of which are NPC statistics. Art is frequent, the blocky, primitive type usual to Fading Suns. Each page is fitting with ink-cartridge killing black heading bands and scroll-work. The scenar [...]

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